Amitabh Bachchan was blockbuster Don at box-office Unlike Shah Rukh Khan
Amitabh Bachchan was blockbuster Don at box-office
Unlike Shah Rukh Khan
Indisputably, Amitabh Bachchan has been a blockbuster Don, even prior to when box office clubs were cool, as he delivered five superhits in one year.
It has been only Amitabh who turned ‘Blockbuster Don’ in delivering 5 hits in a single year.
These days Bollywood films generate a lot of noise with their box office success and collections. However, there was once a time when box office collections did not were much of public interest. In fact, much before the clubs were cool and the success of films was just hit superhit, or flop, was an actor who started writing the chapter for Box Office performances.
It was none other than Amitabh Bachchan who, with the tag of an angry young man, given to him by veteran filmmaker Prakash Mehra in Zanjeer ruled the silver screen.
Even at a time when hits and flops did not impact the stardom much, the Sholay actor ruled the box office not once, not twice, but with five of his films in a single year. It was the year 1978 when the superstar ruled the number game.
In 1978, Amitabh Bachchan had a total of six releases, and five of them were hits at the Box Office. One of them, being a blockbuster-Prakash Mehra directorial Muqaddar Ka Sikander.
The five films were Ganga Ki Saugandh, Kasme Vaade, Besharam, Trishul, Don, Except, Besharam, all the others were hits.
In fact, three out of these six films ruled the list of the top three highest-grossing films that year. While Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, starring Rakhee, Vinod Khanna, and Rekha, was a blockbuster, the film earned 9 crore and was the highest-grossing film of 1978.
This was followed by Trishul, which earned 5.75 crore, and then Don, which collected 3.8 crore; both of the films settled below Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. The other two films that earned a hit status at the Box Office were Kasme Vaade, which had a lifetime business of 2.6 crore, and Ganga Ki Saugand, which earned 2.5 crore.
It is a matter of pride both films entered the top ten highest-grossing films of 1978. The only Amitabh Bachchan film that failed at the Box Office that year was Besharam, which was still not a flop.
The film, starring Sharmila Tagore and Deven Verma, collected around 1.25 crore in its lifetime and was an average performer.
News Edit K.V.Raman
